Judaism

Friend duo for forty five years celebrate Hanukkah together.

Otto Salamon, who as a young boy endured the Holocaust with his family, told Montclair High School students about his experiences.

Hearing the shofar blow is a commandment for Jews on Rosh Hashanah: and it must be heard live. Montclair synagogues have a plan.

Despite many metropolitan area cancellations of Purim Carnivals, and two cancelled locally, in Caldwell and in the Oranges, it is a happy holiday, celebrated this year on Monday night, March 9th, through Tuesday, March 10, a story of intrigue, with a king, queen, and Haman, the evil prime minister, recounting the Jewish people's survival in ancient Persia from Haman’s plot “to destroy, kill and an

Martin Golan will read from his new book "One Night with Lilith," and Rabbi Ariann Weitzman will about Lilith, at Bnai Keshet.

Professor Mark Leuchter will give a talk on 'The Roots of Anti-Semitism" at the Bnai Keshet Kaplan Minyan on Saturday, Feb. 15.

A crowd of hundreds parties on Church Street this year at Chabad Montclair 's "Fire and Ice" Hanukkah party, celebrating the miracle of the light over darkness with music, food, fire and a six-foot ice menorah. The Hebrew word Hanukkah means “dedication.” It ...

The kids and their parents make hamantaschen at the workshop in Chocolate Works Sunday afternoon, March 3, sponsored by Chabad Montclair. They ready for the Jewish holiday of Purim with the signature Purim pastry, hamantaschen. The pastry, filled with all sorts of sweets, is shaped into the tricorn hat of the evil Persian Prime Minister Haman...

Local rabbis consider Yom Kippur a cleansing day, not a dreaded one.